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The electronic conditions in the 5d1 layer-metal LaI2 making comparison with the iso-electronic tantalum dichalcogenides, with the other RE di-iodides, and with the RE monochalcogenides, J H Burrow, C H Maule, P Strange, J N Tothill, J A Wilson
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